Washington, D.C. – July 21, 2024 – Today, North America’s Building Trades Unions (NABTU), issued the following statement from NABTU President Sean McGarvey:

“No president has put America first more than the 46th President of the United States, Joe Biden. As we said in our endorsement, North America’s Building Trades Unions can honestly say no elected official has shown our members and their families more respect than President Joe Biden. Through his policies and his personnel, the Biden Administration has consistently demonstrated his laser-like focus on not only rebuilding our nation’s infrastructure and manufacturing sector but also rebuilding the American middle class itself. Their policies have directly led to increased job opportunities, improved working conditions, and better wages for the working class.

The Administration’s accomplishments have set us on a strong path forward. From saving countless workers’ hard-earned pensions and helping us recover from a global pandemic, to the largest-ever investment in America’s infrastructure, combating climate change while putting workers first, and rebuilding American manufacturing supremacy, this Administration’s record is the single strongest pro-worker, pro-union, pro-building trades record in American history. All of that, coupled with the unprecedented regulatory actions to protect and uplift working families – strengthening Davis-Bacon prevailing wage protections, fighting worker misclassification, and repealing the disastrous and misguided IRAPs – have brought life-changing, opportunity-creating, generational change focused on the working men and women of this great country.

President Biden and his Administration have proven their leadership at a critical time for this country and the working men and women who have built it. NABTU extends our heartfelt gratitude and support for Joe’s years of dedicated service to our nation and the working class he has uplifted throughout his career. President Biden has consistently demonstrated an unwavering commitment to putting America first, and his Administration has exemplified this principle time and time again. The Biden Administration’s unwavering dedication to our democracy has been evident every day and always safeguards our nation’s values. President Biden not only saved democracy once; he is doing it twice because of his profound love for our country, and we are humbled by his tireless, selfless efforts and courage to do what is needed to ensure its prosperity and security.”

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